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Yr.7 & Yr.8 Level Description
Yr.7 & Yr.8 Level Description
The Year 7 and 8 curriculum expands pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills to help them achieve successful outcomes in classroom, leisure, social, movement and online situations. Pupils learn how to take positive action to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. They do this as they examine the nature of their relationships and other factors that influence people’s beliefs, attitudes, opportunities, decisions, behaviours and actions. Pupils demonstrate a range of help-seeking strategies that support them to access and evaluate health and physical activity information and services.
The Year 7 and 8 curriculum expands pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills to help them achieve successful outcomes in classroom, leisure, social, movement and online situations. Pupils learn how to take positive action to enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. They do this as they examine the nature of their relationships and other factors that influence people’s beliefs, attitudes, opportunities, decisions, behaviours and actions. Pupils demonstrate a range of help-seeking strategies that support them to access and evaluate health and physical activity information and services.
The curriculum for Years 7 and 8 supports pupils to refine a range of specialised knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their health, safety, wellbeing, and movement competence and confidence. Pupils develop specialised movement skills and understanding in a range of physical activity settings. They analyse how body control and coordination influence movement composition and performance and learn to transfer movement skills and concepts to a variety of physical activities. Pupils explore the role that games and sports, outdoor recreation, lifelong physical activities, and rhythmic and expressive movement activities play in shaping cultures and identities. They reflect on and refine personal and social skills as they participate in a range of physical activities.
The curriculum for Years 7 and 8 supports pupils to refine a range of specialised knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their health, safety, wellbeing, and movement competence and confidence. Pupils develop specialised movement skills and understanding in a range of physical activity settings. They analyse how body control and coordination influence movement composition and performance and learn to transfer movement skills and concepts to a variety of physical activities. Pupils explore the role that games and sports, outdoor recreation, lifelong physical activities, and rhythmic and expressive movement activities play in shaping cultures and identities. They reflect on and refine personal and social skills as they participate in a range of physical activities.
Focus areas to be addressed in Years 7 and 8 include:
Focus areas to be addressed in Years 7 and 8 include:
- food and nutrition (FN)
- food and nutrition (FN)
- health benefits of physical activity (HBPA)
- health benefits of physical activity (HBPA)
- mental health and wellbeing (MH)
- mental health and wellbeing (MH)
- safety (S)
- safety (S)
- challenge and adventure activities (CA)
- challenge and adventure activities (CA)
- games and sports (GS)
- games and sports (GS)
- lifelong physical activities (LLPA)
- lifelong physical activities (LLPA)
- rhythmic and expressive movement activities (RE).
- rhythmic and expressive movement activities (RE).
By the end of Year 8, pupils evaluate strategies and resources to manage changes and transitions and investigate their impact on identities. Pupils evaluate the impact on wellbeing of relationships and valuing diversity. They analyse factors that influence emotional responses. They investigate strategies and practices that enhance their own, others’ and community health, safety and wellbeing. They investigate and apply movement concepts and select strategies to achieve movement and fitness outcomes. They examine the cultural and historical significance of physical activities and examine how connecting to the environment can enhance health and wellbeing. Pupils apply personal and social skills to establish and maintain respectful relationships and promote safety, fair play and inclusivity. They demonstrate skills to make informed decisions, and propose and implement actions that promote their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. Pupils demonstrate control and accuracy when performing specialised movement sequences and skills. They apply movement concepts and refine strategies to suit different movement situations. They apply the elements of movement to compose and perform movement sequences.
By the end of Year 8, pupils evaluate strategies and resources to manage changes and transitions and investigate their impact on identities. Pupils evaluate the impact on wellbeing of relationships and valuing diversity. They analyse factors that influence emotional responses. They investigate strategies and practices that enhance their own, others’ and community health, safety and wellbeing. They investigate and apply movement concepts and select strategies to achieve movement and fitness outcomes. They examine the cultural and historical significance of physical activities and examine how connecting to the environment can enhance health and wellbeing. Pupils apply personal and social skills to establish and maintain respectful relationships and promote safety, fair play and inclusivity. They demonstrate skills to make informed decisions, and propose and implement actions that promote their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. Pupils demonstrate control and accuracy when performing specialised movement sequences and skills. They apply movement concepts and refine strategies to suit different movement situations. They apply the elements of movement to compose and perform movement sequences.
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